Aileen Neilson

Personal information
Nickname	Mother Goose[1]
Nationality	Scottish
Born	(1971-08-15) 15 August 1971 (age 53) East Kilbride, Scotland[1]
Sport
Country	Scotland  Great Britain
Sport	Wheelchair curling
Medal record Wheelchair curling Representing  Great Britain Winter Paralympic Games 2014 Sochi Mixed competition Representing  Scotland World Championships 2011 Prague Mixed competition 2019 Stirling Mixed competition 2007 Sollefteå Mixed competition
Updated on 10 March 2019

Aileen Neilson (born 15 August 1971)^[2] is a Scottish wheelchair curler. She is the first woman to skip a wheelchair curling team in either the Paralympic Games (2010) or World Championships (2011).^[3]

Although she comes from a family of curlers Neilson only took up the sport in 2004 at the age of 33. She subsequently made her international debut in 2006.^[1]

She was part of the Great Britain wheelchair curling team at the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver, Canada.

She has a bronze medal from the 2007 World Wheelchair Curling Championship^[3] and a silver from the 2011 World Wheelchair Curling Championship.^[1]

She won a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics at Sochi with the British team beating China 7–3 in the third-place play-off match.^[4]

She is a teacher at Bent Primary School in South Lanarkshire. Her partner is former teammate and predecessor as skip of the British Paralympic rink Michael McCreadie.^[1]

• Aileen Neilson at World Curling
• Aileen Neilson at Paralympic.org
• Aileen Neilson at the British Paralympic Association

• Aileen Neilson at ParalympicsGB
• Video profile at BBC Sport
• Profile at the Official Website for the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver